He thought all this sort of thing very stupid, and so absolutely unnecessary.

He had enjoyed listening to Miss Bubbles' cheerful, inconsequent chatter.

It irritated him that she should have been dragged away from him--for so he put it to himself--by that unpleasant, supercilious woman, Blanche Farrow.

It was a pity that a nice girl like Miss Bubbles had such an aunt.

Only the other day he had heard a queer story about Miss Farrow.